A flag-raising ceremony has been held to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the formation of the African Union (AU), with a call on Africans to remain resolute and committed to the shared vision of the AU Agenda 2063. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, who made the call in Accra yesterday after […]
The Republic of Korea has invested $28 million in Official Development Assistance to Ghana this year. The intervention, which covers 25 various projects including agriculture, forms part of the Republic of Korea’s aim to strengthen the economic and bilateral relations between them and Ghana Korea.The South Korean Ambassador to Ghana, Kyong Sig Park, made this […]
Zimbabwe has become the eighth African nation to authorize Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide satellite internet services. President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the licensing on Saturday, detailing a partnership between Starlink and IMC Communications (Pvt) Ltd, a local company owned by Wicknell Chivayo, an associate of the president. During the announcement, Mnangagwa emphasized the importance of emerging […]
Eighteen-year-olds will have to perform a mandatory national service if the Conservative Party is voted back to power in the United Kingdom’s July 4 election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced. The UK has “generations of young people who have not had the opportunities they deserve”, and this measure would help unite society in an […]
For years, the African National Congress rose above politics in South Africa. It was a movement dedicated to freeing Black people from the oppression of white minority rule and to the lofty principle of democracy, equality and a better life for all South Africans. It was widely revered as a force for good under Nelson […]
Burkina Faso’s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman said. “The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024,” Colonel Moussa Diallo, chairman of the organizing committee of the national […]
Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera. In southern and East Africa, more than 6,000 people have died and nearly 350,000 […]
A Member of the Togolese Parliament, Mrs Maimunatu Ibrahima, has been sworn in as the first female speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) says the speaker was sworn in at the second extra-ordinary session of the Parliament on Thursday in Kano, Nigeria. In accordance […]
A former United States Deputy Chief of Mission to Ghana, Sue Katherine Brown, has passed on. She passed away peacefully at her home in Arlington, Virginia, on May 14 following an illness. The former Deputy Chief of Mission, who served in Ghana from 2006 to 2009 did her service with distinction and often as charge […]
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that he will fight for his rights, after the country’s top court ruled that he was not eligible to run for parliament in next week’s election. The constitutional court ruled on Monday that Zuma’s 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court in 2021 disqualified him from standing in […]
